Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of 20th-century literature, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's passionate and provocative novel that chronicles the forbidden affair between Constance Chatterley, the wife of a paralysed and emotionally distant aristocrat, and Oliver Mellors, the earthy gamekeeper on their English country estate. Set against the bleak, industrialised landscape of post-World War I England, Lawrence uses their intensely physical relationship to argue powerfully against the dehumanising effects of the class system and modern industrial society. The novel presents a raw and deeply sensual portrait of human connection, tenderness, and the vital need for authentic intimacy. Infamous for decades of censorship and the subject of a landmark 1960 obscenity trial in the UK, it remains one of the most daring and emotionally charged works in the English literary canon.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback
Published: 1968, Penguin
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of 20th-century literature, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's passionate and provocative novel that chronicles the forbidden affair between Constance Chatterley, the wife of a paralysed and emotionally distant aristocrat, and Oliver Mellors, the earthy gamekeeper on their English country estate. Set against the bleak, industrialised landscape of post-World War I England, Lawrence uses their intensely physical relationship to argue powerfully against the dehumanising effects of the class system and modern industrial society. The novel presents a raw and deeply sensual portrait of human connection, tenderness, and the vital need for authentic intimacy. Infamous for decades of censorship and the subject of a landmark 1960 obscenity trial in the UK, it remains one of the most daring and emotionally charged works in the English literary canon.